Cheer Up and Smile

{{Infobox film

| name = Cheer Up and Smile

| image = Cheer Up and Smile lobby card.jpg

| caption = Lobby card

| director = Sidney Lanfield

| producer = Al Rockett

| writer = Richard Connell (story)
Howard J. Green

| starring = Arthur Lake
Dixie Lee
Olga Baclanova

| cinematography = Joseph A. Valentine

| editing = Ralph Dietrich

| distributor = Fox Film Corporation

| released = {{film date|1930|11|}}

| runtime = 76 min.

| country = United States

| language = English}}

Cheer Up and Smile is a 1930 American pre-Code musical film directed by Sidney Lanfield. The film starred Arthur Lake, Dixie Lee and Olga Baclanova and a 23-year-old John Wayne had a minor uncredited role.

Plot

Cast

Arthur Lake as Eddie Fripp
Dixie Lee as Margie
Olga Baclanova as Yvonne
"Whispering" Jack Smith as himself
Johnny Arthur as Andy
Charles Judels as Pierre
John Darrow as Tom
Sumner Getchell as Paul
Franklin Pangborn as Professor
Buddy Messinger as Donald

Production notes

The role played by Arthur Lake had originally been written for "Whispering" Jack Smith.{{cite book |title=Whatever Became Of ...? Eighth Series |last=Lamparski |first=Richard |year=1982 |publisher=Crown Publishers |location=New York |isbn=0-517-54855-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/whateverbecameof0000lamp/page/166 166–7] |url=https://archive.org/details/whateverbecameof0000lamp/page/166 |url-access=registration }}